Sunday, March 16, 2008

After quite a bit of an absent due to scheduling difficulties (yeah, sorry, I've got a bf and Cashyie has to work). Anyway, we're BACK!!! And we got a whooping long episode for you and a fun contest! Just a warning that we went off constantly on tangents in this episode. :-p So this means a lot of interesting readings! (Hey, I took time linking all these, so you better go read them all!)

Anyway, big thanks to Charles Lifestyle and Knitting, who sent us rolled paper stitch markers and art papers...and I was a dork and forgot to bring it to the recording.

Mystic Waters Shawl (FO - warning about the man-bikini picture...we went right off the tangent about European men and Speedos...and I'm bulge-obsessed. *LOL* *OhmygawdIcan'tbelieveIjustannouncedthattothewholewideworld* We also talked about FFK FKK = "Freikörperkultur" and Cashyie's got a colleague who's a nudist! And he also enjoys science-fiction!)...and here's a picture of me sporting the shawl:

She's got 6 pairs off the needles already! And she's knitting one with Hobbledehoy yarn! We need to get Cashyie to follow a pattern properly. Then we just went off on a tangent about Cashyie's dating....anybody interested to go with her? Coz I won't pass as a hetero. :-p

Hand-spun hat (hand-spun swapped with Cauchy09 and now Ms. B's crazy on hand-spun and is now dealing out her Wollmeise for hand-spun. Rockstar-Husband reckons that he likes spinning more than knitting....because "spinning is like Gandhi")

She also starts knitting stockinette socks with yarns that she hasn't knit with before in order to try out new yarns. She's knitting one with Violet Green Yarn.

Speaking of Wollmeise, she's going to be having her Sauerlach Spring Market on 19th-20th April in Sauerlach near Munich. We'll very highly probably be all there. If you're around in the area, you're welcome to join us there! And you guys can look forward to our interview with her in the near future! ;-)

Life in Germany:Cashyie has fallen in love with German movies....or rather with Til Schweiger. *LOL* The movies that he has been in and we mentioned are:

I veered off plugging the Todd & Pony show....and then Cashyie started dreaming up the ceremony between me and Dr. D....just for the bridesmaid dress! :-p

Katia & KylieMac asked us about phone numbers in Germany...we share our confusion when Germans tell you their phone numbers in full numbers. The complications of how to ring up a phone in Germany.

CONTEST!!!!!

You can win a skein of hand-dyed sock yarn from Handgefaerbt.com, another indie-dyer in Germany....and I'm throwing in the 50 g skein of my own hand-spun: Midnight Stars!

Elemm's Hand-spun: Midnight Stars

For each of us, we have 5 pieces of information. We've mixed them all up. All you need to do is to guess and match up the pieces of information to each of us. The person who gets all or the most correctly will win. If several gets it correctly, then we'll do a drawing. For the time being the deadline will be on 1st April 2008. Please email us the answer or PM us on Ravelry, do NOT post the answers here in the comments. You can find our contact information towards the end of the show notes.

Here goes:

Who has a coin machine and put coins in wrappers?

Who played High School Football?

Who has freakishly small baby toes?

Who has grey hair since childhood?

Who moved around a lot and lived in 16 different addresses since birth?

Who has the most handbags?

Who has a sibling married to an Asian guy?

Who has a Titanium plate in the hand?

Who love cleaning their ears?

Who prefers sharpened regular pencils over mechanical ones?

Who boycotted fast-food for 3 years?

Who doesn't like German food?

Who drinks about 12 litres of Diet-Coke a week?

Who likes brussel sprouts?

Who tried to pay for a person's meal at a drive-thru McDonald's as a random act of kindness?

Good luck!!

The Yarn Wench: Galway

Spinning!!!!

As you've heard earlier in the episode, Ms. B is dreaming of having her own league of spinners, so that she can get hand-spun to knit. So, here's a Q&A about spinning between Ms. B and me (Disclaimer: I'm still a beginning spinner, so what I tell you here might not be a 100% correct and they're all based on my limited knowledge and understandings about spinning.)

Ratios in a wheeldepend on what kind of yarn you want to end up with. The higher the ratio, the more twist it can put in the yarn. You can achieve a high twist in the yarns with lower ratio, too...but you'll end up treadling your wheel like a mad man.

Single or Double Treadles don't really make any difference. It all depends on taste and your comfort.

Bobbins, you can actually never have enough. But I would suggest about 6 bobbins to begin with if you're considering about spinning up some singles and plying them together...which also means that you'll eventually a tensioned lazy Kate (which can also be constructed easily at home).

Setting the twist depends on what you find easier. Some people set the twist on their singles already before plying.

Rovings: Combed, carded, batts, tops, rovings, slivers!

Drafting: Pre-draft, stretching out, etc.

Go listen to the latest SSK Podcast episode! Rockstar-Husband did their theme song for them!

So now the truth is out, I've been interviewed by quite bit of media about my knitting! The first one was done by Brigitte.de, then follows the Jetzt article...and then I was interviewed and went on TV with ARTE. SWR also did an interview but it hasn't aired yet...and the latest TV interview was with "La Vita" on Bayerisches Fernsehen, which will be aired on German television on 03rd April 2008, between 7-7.45 p.m.). Oh, and the magazine Glamour also just did a small interview with me and it will come out in the April issue. :-p

And with all the interviews I got, I suggested that this episode's music should be "Famous" by The Lascivious Biddies, and it is brought to you by:

I really liked both "Run Lola Run" and "The Lives of Others." Cashyie, have you seen "Mostly Martha"? (I forget what the German name is.) Martha is played by the woman who was in "The Lives of Others." Anyway, it's a really cute movie.

First, congrats on Lucky 13th episode. I'm happy that you're still having fun together and sharing your collective passion and journey with the knitting world. I'm certainly enjoying it. I know many others are, too.

Second, thank you so much for the sweet, sweet words about our (hizKNITS and my) podcast. Stephen and I are learning TONS about production, editing and copyright. ;-)

Next, LOVED this XXXL episode (Of Course). It seemed very comfortable and so FREAKING FUNNY. I was listening at work and I laughed out loud a dozen times. I'm sure my boss was like, "Could you please stop watching Extras on YouTube?!!!" I howled when Victor was describing the rocket poo that happens sometimes when you're changing a baby. Way to scare the bejesus out of our momma-to-be-maybe-in-the-future.

Finally, the show notes are a thing of wonder. I can't believe how detailed they are. Makes me ashamed to direct folks to our paltry entries on www.yknit.com.

Big Hugz and Wollmeise Kisses to you all.

~WünderMike

p.s. I'm contacting Claudia to see if we can interview her at TLE. Bwwwoooooo Haaaaa HAAAAAAA. I kid. ;-)

hmm you make an interesting point - ok so maybe i didnt eat the sushi - but i did email with some, and the tuna, which i would have tried turned out to be a bit skittish and afraid of me (or maybe he found his soul mate fingers crossed) and the rest of the fish were filled traces of mercury... am in new orleans now but will be checking out some different fishing holes when i get back to munich, cashyie

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